Obfuscate email addresses

Some of my clients really don’t want to put their email addresses in clear text out in the public. After all, the interwebz is not very forgiving. To some, at least.

For me and my private projects, I’ve never taken this into consideration and I’ve never had any issues with bots finding and spamming me. But it sure exists, and you should probably be more safe than sorry.

Obfuscate emails by creating images in PHP.

The very first(and still in use) alternative to obfuscating – is to create an image of the address. Now this method can be tedious when you have a lot of emails to cover.

So why not create the images on-the-fly using built in PHP functions? Well. It work’s like it should. But still. You can’t click on them. Since, well, it’s just an image.

You can’t just put links around the images since the spiders and scrapers will find them.